Rising price of health services drove increase in US health care spending
1. This ecological study found that between 1996-2013, annual US health care spending was largely related to increases in health ...
Tag: hospital costs
Institute of Medicine identifies cost variation between geographic regions
Image: PD 1. Institute of Medicine reports a correlation between geography and cost and quality data in the Medicare population. ...
Costs for DKA care vary significantly among U.S. hospitals
Image: PD 1. Hospital costs, length of stay, and readmission rates for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) vary widely across United States ...
Cardiac surgery risk stratification scores correlate poorly with costs
Image: PD 1. The six most commonly used preoperative scoring systems had weak linear correlations with hospital costs. 2. Hospital ...